How to guarantee strong Precursors

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I guess this is a spoiler discussion but there isn’t a spoiler category that I’m aware of but I’ve been wondering:

Is there a way to make sure that precursors are way stronger than they usually are? I know you can crank up their starting tech points at game start but I have no knowledge of any thresholds or how far I need to take that number for it to really matter.

Specifically I want to make sure that they actually show up with shielding, because without it they kind of fall over the moment particle beams/lances get involved. I know they can, I’ve had shielded precursors before, but it seems to be rare.

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The only way is to turn up their tech points. Higher tech NPR designs are more likely to have shields, but it isn’t guaranteed.

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As a rough estimate, I would guess that every time you double the tech points for a spoiler race, they should advance by approximately one full tech level. So if the default tech points for Precursors is 600,000 and you set it to 2,400,000, I would imagine that they would have engines, weapons, etc. 2 tech levels higher than usual.

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